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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RILEY SMITH, OF TOVANDA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,777, dated December 1, 1857.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it qknown that I, RILEY SMITH, of Towanda, in the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVringing Clothes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents in perspective the wringing apparatus, as applied to a washing machine, for the sake of convenience. Fig. 2 represents a vertical longitudinal section through the apparatus.

Similar letters of reference where they occur in the separate figures denote like parts of the apparatus in both.

The washing machine itself may be like that patented to me on the 9th day of Sept., 1856, as represented in the drawings, or of any other suitable kind, A representing the suds boX, and B, its supports or legs.

C, is a bottom piece, through which a screw bolt D passes, having a thumb nut E on it.

F, is a head block, having a slot G in it, through which the bolt D, passes, for holding and adjusting said head block. A gain or open mortise H, is cut in the head block F, in which is pivoted at I, a brace J, the other end of said brace being pivoted to the pieces K, at the point a.

L, is a hand rubbing board fastened to K, and M the handles attached thereto.

The lower ends of the pieces K, are piv oted at N, to the beater P. Q. R., said beater being suspended to the arms O, O, which are hung on the wrung b, that eX- tends across from the tops of the uprights S, S, and forms with them a gallows-frame.

T, are ribs in the bottom of the wash box, and U, the vertical ribs in the end thereof, and V, a cap or cover over the latter to prevent the water from splashing over. This much of the machine is the same as that patented heretofore to me, and I of course lay no claim to it again in this specification, merely representing it, to show a convenient way of attaching my proposed wringing apparatus to my patented machine for washing clothes.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my wringing apparatus, I will proceed to describe the same.

To that end of the wash box A, where the operator stands, is pivoted by a pin c, a curved upright brace W, there being a jog or shoulder d, on the lower end of said brace W, which catches under the bottom of the frame piece X. There is a washer e, on the pin c, and a helical spring f, is wound around said pin, one end of the said spring pressing against the washer, and the other end of it resting against the inside of the piece X. The object of this arrangement is that the operator may push the top of the brace W, toward the machine until the shoulder d is released, and then swing it to either side out of the way, while using the washing machine, it being swung back again into the position shown in the drawings when it is to be used for wringing the washed clothes. The spring f, besides its holding the lower end of the brace IV in place, also allows the top of said brace to yield to the strain on the wringing apparatus, and to spring it back again, when the wringing ceases. To the wrung Z), and to another wrung g, on the top of the brace IV,

is connected a bag, sack, or cloth Y, in which the clothes that are to be wrung are placed. A strong cord z', is rst passed through an eye n, in a lever Z, and then the two ends of said cord are tightly fastened at or near the ends of the sack, bag, or cloth Y. The lever Z, is generally used or applied at about midway of the length of the clothes receiver Y, but should there be a heavier bulk of clothes at any particular point along the receiver Y, where harder wringing would be required, the lever Z, can be slipped along on the cord i, until it reaches that spot or point, and then by turning said lever around the sack, bag, or

oughly wrung out and this lever may be charged along the clothes wherever most required. h, h, are handles by which the lever Z, is operated.

The common method of applying power to wringing cloths, or sacks, has been at one, or both of its ends. This leaves the middle portion, which generally contains most of the clothes the least subjected to the action of the power applied. By my method of applying the power through the movable lever, I can twist or wring the hardest where most required.

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention, I would state that I am fully aware clothes have been wrung in a cloth, bag, or net by applying the power that twists said cloth, bag, or

nearer the center of the clothes receptacle,

. and moved where most desired, or required,

and as herein set forth.

RILEY SMITH.

Witnesses:

A. B. STOUGHTON, Trios. H. UPPERMAN. 

